The death toll was growing Wednesday as Hurricane Melissa made its way across Cuba and headed for the Bahamas, a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record.

Hurricane Melissa headed to eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm Wednesday after bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica, where it made landfall as a Category 5 storm Tuesday. Authorities ...

Where is Hurricane Imelda, and what is the cone of uncertainty? In just a few days, the storm strengthened from tropical depression to hurricane, and as of Tuesday, Sept. 30, Hurricane Imelda was a ...

Hurricane Melissa was a strong Category 4 on Oct. 26, as it lingered near Jamaica. It has since become a Category 5 storm. Update, Oct. 27: This article was originally published Oct. 26. It has been ...

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, threatened to bring catastrophic winds, heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides as it tracked through the northern Caribbean and neared landfall in ...

The "cone of uncertainty" represents a projected path for a named storm and covers days 1 through 5 of a forecast. The USA TODAY Network in Florida provides daily tropics watch reports during ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica. It was the strongest to hit the island since ...